Using Simulations to Compare Teammates Fairly
Teammate comparisons are the cleanest dataset in Formula 1—same team, same engineering group, broadly the same car concept. And yet they’re also one of the easiest analyses to get wrong, because the public-facing outputs (points, podiums, headline results) are a noisy mix of execution and randomness. If you want to compare teammates fairly, you don’t need a hotter take. You need a way to hold conditions constant and ask: when the world is equal, who extracts more? That’s exactly what simulations and calculators are for, and it’s why RaceMate treats teammate comparison as a modelling problem first—then a narrative.
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